CURRENT & CHOICE

Kind Hearts and Coronets. A witty British comedy about an Edwardian gentleman who murders his way into the peerage; with Alec Guinness playing eight roles (TIME, July 3).

The Lawless. An unblinking look at mob violence in a California town; with Macdonald Carey and Gail Russell (TIME, July 3).

The Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston examines a band of criminals as human beings while documenting a $1,000,000 burglary; with Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern (TIME, June 19).

Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy in a delightfully funny adaptation of Edward Streeter's bestseller (TIME, May 29).

The Big Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME, May 8).

Annie Get Your Gun. Betty Hutton at large in a sensibly faithful version of Irving Berlin's musicomedy hit (TIME, April 24).

City Lights. Charlie Chaplin's 19-year-old but still spry "comedy romance in pantomime" (TIME, April 17).

Cinderella. Walt Disney rounds out the cast of the fairy-tale classic with some beguiling birds and beasts (TIME, Feb. 20).

The Third Man. Melodramatic skulduggery in postwar Vienna, written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed; with Joseph Gotten, Orson Welles and Valli (TIME, Feb. 6).

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